Animals Before Man 



These anomalous reptiles, to borrow a 

 phrase from Mr. Hutchiusou, have so far been 

 found most abundantly in South Africa, where 

 the Karoo Beds have yielded many species 

 and a large number of individuals. In North 

 America, Texas, Illinois, and Arizona, particu- 

 larly the first-named State, have furnished a 

 number of species ; and quite recently the 

 genus Pariasaurus, hitherto known only from 

 Africa, has been found in Russia. Most of the 

 species so far discovered are of very massive 

 build, with short and powerful legs and large 

 heads, the entire aspect of the skeleton for 

 skeletons have their own individuality being 

 suggestive of stupidity and brute ferocity. 

 Stupid these animals certainly were, if size 

 of brain is any index of amount of intelli- 

 gence, for the brains of all these early animals 

 were diminutive, and it was a long time before 

 any animal came into the world with a brain 

 that would compare either in quantity or 

 quality with the brains of very ordinary ani- 

 mals of to-day. 



The question may very naturally be asked, 

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